Richelle Mead Quotes

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.

One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

People do really stupid things while driving.

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.

When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.

I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.

In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!

I've crashed my car three times.

Everybody just uses the one-move rule without realising when it is too late to actually move and cross over and when it is actually being dangerous.

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

I actually crashed the car I learned to drive on. It was a friend of mine's car.

I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake, you're dead.

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

I'm sure I've been in an accident because I'm wild and crazy and go too fast, but I don't remember having an accident.

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

Superman don't need no seat belt.

It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

Bill Janklow speeds when he drives. Shouldn’t, but he does.

I used to fly around quite a bit, you know? I took a lot of unnecessary chances on the highways. And I started racing, and now I drive on the highways, I'm extra cautious because no one knows what they're doing half the time. You don't know what this guy is going to do or that one.

Almost all accidents take place because of human distraction.

My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.